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Reports for December 27, 2011 - January 17, 2012
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December 27, 2011
December 28, 2011
Holiday Predictions for 2012 3. Call it wishful thinking, but I
predict that Martha Saunders will embarrass the University
(and more importantly the IHL) once too often this year.
December 29, 2011
February’s Friendly Skies A Look at February-2011 Ancillary
Expenses Associated with the USM Airplane The
23-Dec-2011 USMNEWS.net report entitled September
Skies announced that USMNEWS.net has recently obtained
many new official documents regarding the USM airplane.
That particular report indicates that the ancillary expenses
associated with the Beechcraft King Air for just the last
week of Sept-2011 come to more than $250. This figure, for
such a relatively brief period, is a harbinger of even greater
expenses over other periods during 2011. The present report
examines similar expenses for the month of Feb-2011.
December 30, 2011
January 2, 2012
January 3, 2012
Dear usmnews.net In the wake of The Hattiesburg
American article, Auditor: USM has 3 weeks to gather
tablets, usmnews.net has been receiving comments from
readers concerning the "Tabletgate scandal" at Southern
Miss.
January 4, 2012
A Cautionary Tale about Public Relations Fanfare On
December 28, 2011, the Hattiesburg American offered its
readers, "Auditor: USM has 3 weeks to gather tablets....With
great public relations fanfare, President Saunders handed
out the Samsung tablets to select and privileged students
and others.
January 9, 2012
Have you seen…? Have you seen the television
advertisements that encourage potential students to study
art and dance? They are paid for by Mississippi taxpayers
and students. They are the decision of administrators at
the University of Southern Mississippi and its College of
Arts and Letters.
January 10, 2012
Dear usmnews.net, Yes, I have seen Dr. Saunders'
commercials. When did Southern Miss turn into the
University of Phoenix with its hard sales pitch?
The Top 10 CoB Stories of 2011 By Duane Cobb Each
year at about this time I provide USMNEWS.net my top
ten news items involving USM’s business school for the
year. This is Part 3 in that countdown for the top CoB
stories of 2011. 3. Laatsch Cut Loose FINREBL chairman
Francis Laatsch was mysteriously replaced as chairman
of FINREBL during the summer of 2011.
January 11, 2012
January 5, 2012
usmnews.net periodically receives requests from readers to
reprint materials from exactly a year ago. Readers seem to
beleive it provides a perspective. Here is a letter to the
editor that reminds why readers continue to ask. "Dear
usmnews.net, perhaps the Xmas break has given me too
much time to think, but ...".
January 12, 2012
January 13, 2012
January 16, 2012
USM-CoB's Recent AACSB Reaccreditation: What does it
mean? Professors of accounting and business throughout
the country will tell you that AACSB accreditation is a
very expensive waste of time.
The Farm News Briefs from Southern Miss 14-Jan-2011
Program Appeals Done; Saunders Contradicts Herself As
higher education reporter Ed Kemp indicates in his
13-Jan-2010 story for The Hattiesburg American entitled
“Appeals process under way at USM,” the nine-member
USM appeals committee has essentially completed its
hearings on program cuts enacted by USM president
Martha Saunders (during Fall-2010) in an effort to
address an expected $15 million cut for FY2012.
January 6, 2012
Holiday Predictions for 2012 Lance Nail will try to parlay his
successful AACSB run into a deanship at a b-school above
the fourth tier. (Note from the editor: This prediction is
interesting since usmnews.net is seeing an increasing
number of Lance Nail hits from otherschools – many of
which are looking for new deans.)
An update to 31st & Pearl, More than 4 Million Served Here
we are on January 6, 2012. usmnews.net will soon be six
years old. Its readership continues to expand. As of today,
the number of hits is approaching 6.3 million
January 17, 2012
Update: Will 2011-12 be a Banner Year?
January 18, 2012